Australia’s southern coastal wetlands are more diverse than most people realise. In a recent paper, Paul Boon suggests they provide valuable ecological services that exceed those of inland wetland ecosystems…
Our national parks are full of forests – we could be claiming carbon credits for managing them better.
Tatiana Gerus
The Australian Government has recently committed to a second round of the Kyoto Protocol to run from 2013-2020. In doing so, Australia is required to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5…
Dairy farmers will be able to claim carbon credits if they feed their cows right.
Eli Duke
The Carbon Farming Initiative is about to provide incentives for dairy farmers to reduce emissions from their milking cows. Emissions will be reduced by changing the cows' diet.
The proposed new methodology…
An early season burn in Arnhem Land. Low intensity fires decrease greenhouse emissions and increase carbon stored in trees. Brett Murphy.
Fire and biodiversity have a complex relationship in northern Australia. Tim Flannery and others blame the current northern biodiversity crisis, at least in part, on changed fire regimes. Improving fire…
Methane-capture technology in Grantham, Queensland, could earn carbon credits through Australia’s Carbon Farming Initiative.
AAP/Alan Skerman
Today, nearly 1.3 billion people – almost a fifth of the world’s population – live on “fragile” agricultural land. Just one-third of the rural poor in developing countries live on productive agricultural…
For most farmers, it will take more than money to get them involved in carbon farming.
Drew Bandy
The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) and Biodiversity Fund, two new Australian government initiatives, could help private landholders generate income while benefiting both climate change abatement and biodiversity…
Biodiversity and farming are uneasy bedfellows: a lonely tree in a canola field in Western Australia.
Flickr/augustusoz
Biodiversity and farming go head to head in two R&D projects that I have a hand in. The struggles to both feed the swelling ranks of humanity and save our continent’s natural splendour are so often…
